Immediately after Israel occupied East Jerusalem in 1967, it demolished the city's Moroccan Quarter in it’s entirety – a neighbourhood that had existed for 700 years. Its residents were given two hours' notice before the houses were bulldozed. 
"So suddenly came this dictate that one woman from the quarter who did not hear the calls to vacate was buried alive beneath the rubble that evening. Her body was found the next morning under the ruins of her home."
The history of Israel is very literally the history of an unbroken sequence of destruction committed against the Palestinians’ history, lives and homes. The recent events in Jerusalem must be understood in this broader context.
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